Today is Saturday, Dec. 10, the 345th day of 2016

Today is Saturday, Dec. 10, the 345th day of 2016. There are 21 days left in the year.

ASSOCIATED PRESS

On this date in:

1906: President Theodore Roosevelt becomes the first American to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for helping to mediate an end to the Russo-Japanese War.

1931: Jane Addams becomes the first American woman to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize; the co-recipient is Nicholas Murray Butler.

1950: Ralph J. Bunche is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, the first black American to receive the award.

1964: Martin Luther King Jr. receives his Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo.

1967: Singer Otis Redding, 26, and six others are killed when their plane crashes into Wisconsin’s Lake Monona.

1984: South African Bishop Desmond Tutu receives the Nobel Peace Prize.

1994: Yasser Arafat, Shimon Peres and Yitzhak Rabin receive the Nobel Peace Prize,

2011: Tens of thousands of Russians stage anti-government protests, charging electoral fraud and demanding an end to Vladimir Putin’s rule.

VINDICATOR FILES

1991: General Motors, whose stock prices have taken a dive and whose credit rating is under scrutiny, is contemplating white-collar layoffs.

Jim Scott, 70, a car salesman for 27 years, is taken for a ride by two men who came to Crown Ford in Warren for a test drive. They take his wallet and force him from the car at Eastwood Mall.

U.S. Sen. John Glenn, D-Ohio, comes to Youngstown for a public forum at St. Elizabeth Hospital Medical Center to hear from area residents about the lack of health care.

1976: Three pickets receive minor injuries in scuffles with supervisors attempting to cross a picket line at the Packard Electric Division of General Motors. About 12,000 members of IUE Local 717 joined a nationwide strike.

Ohio Gov. James A. Rhodes names Joseph J. Craciun, 65, of Warren, judge in Warren Municipal Court, succeeding Donald Ford, who resigned.

Herman Starks, D-2nd Ward, is the only councilman voting against a City Council resolution declaring Santa Claus mayor for one day, Dec. 25. Starks said the resolution makes council look foolish and could also have serious consequences because it allows “Santa” to violate city parking and speeding ordinances.

1966: The Rev. Eugene C. Beach D.D., senior pastor of First Christian Church, will speak on “If I Only Had One Sermon to Preach” as his final message after 30 years at the church.

The Hubbard Rotary Club’s annual Christmas party for handicapped children, will be held in Central Christian Church with 30 children and 10 adults present.

Joseph L. Graham Jr. of Warren, who was wounded by police while fleeing a burglary at the Big D Supermarket on South Main Street, dies in Trumbull Memorial Hospital.

1941: Youngstown’s new municipal airport is one of few in the nation suitable for basing heavy bombers or high-speed interceptor fighters.

The Canfield Players interrupt their first night performance of “Kind Lady” in the Canfield Memorial building to listen to President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s radio address.

Tom Dellick goes on a scoring rampage as Coach Harley Littler’s East High School basketball team downs Austintown Fitch by a score of 55-22. Dellick had 24 points.

Willard George, a meteorologist for Pan American Airways stationed in the Philippines, is home in Youngstown on leave and is not sure where he will be reassigned now that war has broken out.